Practice Tips

Dr. Mike Evans offers another video in his health series. This time looks at a patient's on a journey to quit smoking: sometimes a short one of reslience, but more often a long journey of quitting and relapse.

TORONTO | Dr. Eric Stanton doesn’t believe that many—if any—doctors in Ontario purposely screen potential patients based on discriminatory criteria like age, race, gender, or medical condition and needs.

It is likely financial incentives drove increases in laparoscopic surgery, but with minimal patient benefits, a new McMaster University study has found.

VANCOUVER | Cardiac Services BC, an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), has successfully implemented what it says is the first province-wide cardiac information system in Canada to support clinical care, quality assurance and improvement, and outcome-based research.

The product should only be used when patients are unresponsive to conventional first-line therapies for these types of acne.

College finds man guilty of having inappropriate relationships with patients, keeping loaded handgun in drugstore.

A new provincial initiative kicks in Aug. 1 to provide local seniors with exercise and fall prevention classes.

A recent study led by Dr. David Reuben, director of geriatrics at UCLA, and published in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society shows that patients co-managed by a nurse practioner and a primary care physician together were more likely to receive the recommended care than those seen by a doctor working independently.